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directory noun [ dɪˈrɛkt(ə)ri ]

• a book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Similar: index, list, listing, register, catalogue, record, archive, inventory,
• a book of directions for the conduct of Christian worship, especially in Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Churches.
• the revolutionary government in France 1795–9, comprising two councils and a five-member executive. It maintained an aggressive foreign policy, but could not control events at home and was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Origin: late Middle English (in the general sense ‘something that directs’): from late Latin directorium, from director ‘governor’, from dirigere ‘to guide’.


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